unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) (10/11/89)
Following the military and political areas where the path towards
peace without weapons had been opened, he said "a second front"
in the economic sphere was now open. His Government supported
the convening of the 1992 conference on environment and
development, and the General Assembly should enact measures to
monitor future threats to ecological security. Activities of
the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction should include the
co-ordination of international efforts. The interests of all
States should be respected in the preparatory work for the
special session and the international development strategy, as
well as for political recommendations to strengthen
international economic co-operation.
The process of perestroika had had effects on the economic
policies of his Government, he said; its aim was to provide
rights and freedom and enhance the quality of life for all.
Property relations were being reformed and industrial
enterprises restructured, providing access to the external
market and integration in the world economy. Byelorussia thus
wanted to see an improvement in international economic
relations, as domestic and foreign policies were deeply
interlinked.
YAKUB AL-MUBARAK (United Arab Emirates) said the United Nations
was the best forum to propose better solutions to socio-economic
problems. Referring to problems concerning developing
countries, such as commodity prices, trade questions, external
finances, he said there should be complementarity among
countries. He called for the implementation of a new
international economic order to allow the international
community to find proper solutions to those problems.
The special session of the General Assembly which would take
place in April l990, and the discussion of the international
development strategy, would be important occasions to address
all those questions. Referring to decisions and resolutions
adopted by international organizations and
conferences, he said that what was lacking for their
implementation was political will.
He attached great importance to the question of the protection of
the environment, he continued. Pollution must be reduced, and
all countries must co-operate to achieve that. He supported the
United Nations conference on environment and development, to be
convened in Brazil in 1992. Finally, he said, the debt
question was an unbearable problem for the developing
countries. The international development strategy and the
special session of the General Assembly should try to find ways
to relieve the debt burden.
FERENC SOMOGYI (Hungary) said international economic relations
had assumed a more global character; the international economy
was undergoing a swift and apparently lasting transformation.
The chronic malfunctions of the international financial and
monetary system, as well as national and regional protectionist
and discriminatory practices, had raised barriers to world trade
and imposed a heavy burden on international economic relations.
Unfavourable terms and conditions made it virtually impossible
for some countries to be integrated into the world economy
through structural adjustment.
Hungary had undertaken an historic challenge to begin the
democratization process, institute a market economy and open it
to the world economy, he said. Its strategic goal was to become
an equal member of the democratic community of advanced
societies. The one-party monopoly was being replaced by
political pluralism with institutional guarantees created for
civil and community autonomy. A shift in economic policy was
needed along with placing the institutional framework of the
economy on a new basis. Hungary had begun its process of
adjustment to the world economy under the pressure of
debt-servicing obligations; it needed co-operation from developed
countries and international institutions to fulfil its
debt-servicing obligations.
Hungary's two-way participation in the world economy was a basic
postulate of its external economic strategy, he said. While
keeping in line with the development of Western European
integration, his Government would have to increase its economic
level to meet that of Western Europe, while continuing to
diversify its economic relations. Hungary was preparing for the
change in Europe scheduled for 1992 and for the implementation of
an agreement with the European Economic Community (EEC) signed
in 1988. Reform and renewal in Hungary, based on broad
co-operation and abandonment of the "outdated bloc approach",
might become an integral part of the search for solutions to the
global problems facing mankind.
PEDRO DAZA (Chile) said that in the Assembly's general debate,
many speakers had referred to a new climate of peace in the
international political sphere. Such optimism, however, had
limitations; it was in the Second Committee that those
limitations were usually discussed. They concerned economic
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